Living with stories : telling, re-telling, and remembering / edited by William Schneider ; with essays by Aron L. Crowell ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schneider, William S., 1946-

Crowell, Aron, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storytelling.

Folklore--Performance.

Folklore.

Oral tradition.

Oral history.

Physical Description:

175 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Logan : Utah State University Press, [2008]

Summary:

In essays about communities as varied as Alaskan Native, East Indian, Palestinian, Mexican American, and African American, oral historians, folklorists, and anthropologists look at how traditional and historical oral narratives live through re-tellings, gaining meaning and significance in repeated performances, from varying contexts, through cultural and historical knowing, and due to tellers' consciousness of their audiences.

Contents:

2 The Giant Footprints: A Lived Sense of Story and Place / Holly Cusack-McVeigh 18

Conversation with Klara B. Kelley 31

3 The St. Lawrence Island Famine and Epidemic, 1878-80: A Yupik Narrative in Cultural and Historical Context / Aron L. Crowell, Estelle Oozevaseuk 36

Conversation with James Clifford 68

4 Singing and Retelling the Past / Kirin Narayan 74

Conversation with Barre Toelken 95

5 The Weight of Faith: Generative Metaphors in the Stories of Eva Castellanoz / Joanne B. Mulcahy 99

Conversation with Barbara A. Babcock 117

6 The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation: Historicizing Palestinian Women's Narratives / Sherna Berger Gluck 120

Conversation with Ted Swedenburg 134

7 Performance/Participation: A Museum Case Study in Participatory Theatre / Lorraine McConaghy 138

Conversation with Karen R. Utz 155.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780874216899

0874216893

OCLC:

180989549